Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
Bridges Across
Eras
Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Carlos Alcaraz
reaches
Bill Joiner
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10April 5, 2021View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →02 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
3 meetings12October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Feliciano Lopez × Andre Agassi →03 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
3 meetings30September 21, 1987 — August 29, 1994View Andre Agassi × Guy Forget →04 BridgeOpen career →Guy Forget
2 meetings11November 8, 1982 — December 2, 1982View Guy Forget × Phil Dent →05 BridgeOpen career →Phil Dent
1 meeting10November 9, 1970View Phil Dent × Greg Perkins →06 BridgeOpen career →Greg Perkins
1 meeting10June 8, 1970View Greg Perkins × Bill Joiner →07 DestinationOpen career →Bill Joiner
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Brown
- BridgeJean Louis Haillet
- BridgeGreg Perkins
- DestinationBill Joiner
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgePhil Dent
- BridgeGreg Perkins
- DestinationBill Joiner
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJun Kuki
- BridgeGreg Perkins
- DestinationBill Joiner
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeButch Seewagen
- BridgeGreg Perkins
- DestinationBill Joiner
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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